Senior AI Solutions Developer

slihrms; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

slihrms in Denver, Colorado is seeking an experienced Senior Software Developer to lead AI-enabled software and data solutions for clients. You will work closely with Technology Team leaders and cross functional business line teams to support the development and growth of advanced software development and AI capabilities.

As a senior developer, you will design, build, and deploy scalable AI-driven systems, lead project teams, and interact with clients in progress meetings and design reviews.

Qualifications

• B.S. or B.A. in Computer Science, or IT-related discipline.
• 8–15+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with Python programming and maintainable, well-documented code.
• Experience with SQL, relational database concepts, and efficient database design.
• Experience building RAG systems, Prompt engineering, Data processing.
• Knowledge on AI Best practices, Evaluation techniques and Quality control strategies.
• Experience with Structured and unstructured data ingestion, cleaning, transformation, and processing.
• Experience developing Data pipelines for analytical, application, dashboard, or model workflows.
• Experience with applied machine learning, model integration.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a credible AI expert in client meetings, conferences, proposal interviews, internal strategy sessions, and cross business unit discussions.
• Develop reusable AI solutions, demo concepts, reference architectures, use case libraries, discovery templates, proposal language, and delivery playbooks.
• Develop business cases that define expected benefits such as productivity improvement, cost reduction, cycle time reduction, service quality improvement, accuracy improvement, user adoption, and return on AI investment.
• Use machine learning, natural language processing, OCR, automation, Generative AI, and model-integration techniques to support project delivery.
• Evaluate whether a use case is best solved through deterministic automation, traditional software logic, analytics, machine learning, generative AI or third-party products.
• Design and maintain integration patterns for third-party AI models, APIs, enterprise platforms, and software tools.
• Support AI governance, model evaluation, data handling, security review, human-in-the-loop validation, responsible AI documentation, and client data-permission considerations.
• Support Microsoft Azure-based data and application development, including SQL Server, Azure Data Lake Storage, identity and access management, backend deployment, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and DevOps workflows as applicable.
• Participate in client needs analyses, scope of work development, estimate development, project planning, design reviews, progress meetings, and operational discussions.
• Work in close coordination with leadership, account leads, project managers and client resources.
• Translate business requirements into software specifications, data requirements, architecture notes, workflow diagrams, and implementation tasks.
• Build and manage data pipelines from diverse sources.
• Perform other such duties as the supervisor may from time to time deem necessary.
• Contribute AI strategy, technical approach, use case narratives, and differentiators for proposals and client presentations.
• Develop and execute a practical AI growth strategy that identifies target clients, priority markets, high value use cases, and repeatable service offerings.
• Create standard AI marketing materials that clearly communicate the organization's AI value proposition.
• Meet with existing and prospective clients to understand business challenges, operational pain points, data maturity, and opportunities for AI enabled improvement.
• Work with client stakeholders, industry experts, software developers, data specialists, and project managers to define AI enabled solutions that solve real business problems.
• Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to define software requirements and technical strategies.
• Assist sales leads and project managers to estimate level of effort.

Skills

Python programming

SQL

RAG systems

Prompt engineering

Data processing

AI governance

Data pipelines

Applied ML

Education

B.S./B.A. in Computer Science

Job description

slihrms in Denver, Colorado is seeking an experienced Senior Software Developer to lead AI-enabled software and data solutions for clients. You will work closely with Technology Team leaders and cross functional business line teams to support the development and growth of advanced software development and AI capabilities.

As a senior developer, you will design, build, and deploy scalable AI-driven systems, lead project teams, and interact with clients in progress meetings and design reviews.